May 22, 2019 | Natural Steward, Wednesday Quotes
“When the cuckoo’s song is first heard among the oak leaves to the delight of mortals throughout the wide earth.” Hesiod, Works and Days What brings delight to people, or not, can show much about those people. Here Hesiod writes of what in his experience brings...
Feb 27, 2019 | Natural Steward, Wednesday Quotes
“But when he knew he heard Odysseus’s voice nearby, he did his best to wag his tail, nose down, with flattened ears, having no strength to move nearer his master. And the man looked away, wiping a salt tear from his cheek… If this old hound could show the form he had...
Feb 20, 2019 | Discovering Wonder, Natural Steward, Wednesday Quotes
“By nature animals are born with the faculty of sensation…” Aristotle, Metaphysics Perhaps of all the wonders of the natural world none is as magnificent as this: some creatures can see. One almost shudders to ask: what does it mean to see something? Here...
Feb 13, 2019 | Discovering Wonder, Natural Steward, Wednesday Quotes
“Of natural bodies some have life in them, others do not.” Aristotle, On the Soul It seldom catches our attention. So easy is it for us to pass it by without noticing. That tree is alive. Choose the tree—it matters not which one: the specimen maple in...
Feb 6, 2019 | Discovering Wonder, Natural Steward, Wednesday Quotes
“For it is owing to their wonder that men both now begin and at first began to philosophize.” Aristotle, Metaphysics When it comes to certain wonder-full things in the world around us, life experience can have a stultifying effect in our souls. We become...
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